Tucker Carlson aired an interview with Carrie Prejean Boller on March 13, and Boller’s story paints a picture of intimidation by pro-Zionist influencers like Dan Patrick and Paula White as early as August 2025, before Religious Liberty Commission hearings even began.
Boller explained to Tucker that she has been friends with President Trump for almost 20 years, dating back to when she held the Miss California title in 2009. At the Miss USA pageant, representing California, Boller publicly stated that she believed that marriage is between one man and one woman, and subsequently faced intense backlash – but Donald Trump supported her.
Boller said Trump told her, then just 21-years-old, that she had the “it” factor, and asked what she wanted to do next. Boller asked Trump for his help in publishing a book to tell her story, which he gave his blessing for. When pressured to attend gay pride parades in California, Boller said she called Trump personally, who handled the situation and relieved her of being forced to attend events or act in a way that violated her Christian beliefs.
Because he steadfastly supported Boller, she was adamant about defending Trump during his presidential campaigns, rejecting claims that he acted inappropriately with pageant competitors. Boller attended both of the president’s inaugurations, and he asked her to serve on the Religious Liberty Commission just two days after she was confirmed a Catholic at Easter 2025.
Boller told Tucker that she actually used to be a dispensationalist Christian. When she started to question dispensationalist ideology, she found herself studying the early Church fathers, which led her to the Catholic Church.
When Boller stood up for Catholic beliefs during the February antisemitism hearing, her status and knowledge as a Catholic was mocked since she is a recent convert.
According to Boller, she faced intimidation by Dan Patrick and Paula White as early as August 2025 – before the hearings for the Religious Liberty Commission even started.
Carrie Prejean Boller reports that President Trump's "Religious Liberty Commission" was described to her by Dan Patrick as existing to "protect" the President's "image."
— AF Post (@AFpost) March 13, 2026
Patrick, with fanatic charismatic "pastor" Paula White, told Boller to stop talking about "replacement… pic.twitter.com/52jRIHK2Eb
In August, Boller received a call from Mary Margaret Bush, a federal employee who helped run the commission. Bush told her that there had been some chatter in the White House that Boller was anti-semite based on her social media postings, which included criticisms of the Israeli government’s actions in Gaza and opposition to Zionist ideology.
Boller pushed for more information. “You’re telling me that as a religious liberty commissioner to protect religious liberty, I don’t have my religious liberty to post about things that affect my religion and my religious beliefs?” she told Tucker, and asked Bush specifically for which of her posts caused this chatter, and was told her sharing of Tony Aguilar’s interview with Tucker from the summer was one of the problematic topics.
Lt. Col. Tony Aguilar, a Green Beret, was interviewed two times by Tucker Carlson in July-August of 2025. He served as a military contractor on a humanitarian mission in Gaza, and his testimony about the treatment of Palestinians by the IDF and the humanitarian organization itself was shocking. Aguilar claimed that the IDF would use gunfire in order to control the crowds of Palestinians rushing to get food aid at distribution sites that were in war zones, which is in and of itself a violation of the Geneva Convention laws. The gunfire, whether reckless or deliberate, would result in Palestinians being injured or killed.
Reflecting on how sharing Aguilar’s story became controversial for Boller, she said, “I’m a pro-life Christian. I have a duty to speak out. And it would be a betrayal of my conscience not to.”
According to Boller, Bush also conveyed that her resharing of a message from Pope Leo XIV about the suffering in Gaza was also problematic. She was told she should not use the word “genocide.”
“That’s when I knew – this is a war,” Boller said. “We are in an absolute war. I said, I’m a Catholic. You’re telling me that I have to censor my posts of Pope Leo, the Holy Father? I can’t post what he’s saying, talking about the grave suffering of the Palestinians in Gaza?” Boller was also instructed that she could not talk about Zionism.
Later in August, Boller received a call from Mary Sprowls of the Presidential Personnel Office (PPO). Sprowls asked Boller for her resignation. “I want your written resignation today,” Sprowls allegedly told Boller, and confessed that it was Dan Patrick, Paula White, and Brittany Baldwin asking for her to resign.
Boller said she tried to get in touch with Dan Patrick or Paula White, but was not able to have a direct conversation with them. She refused to resign, and she said that when she arrived at the first hearing of the commission, President Trump was in attendance. Boller shared that when she greeted the president, he said, “I want you to know something – I took care of it. You know what I’m talking about, right?”
Boller replied, “Yes, Mr. President, I know what you’re talking about. Thank you so much.” And with that, Boller felt like she had the president’s approval to continue using her free speech.
This hostility all came to a head at the February hearing on anti-semitism. Boller told Tucker that she did not receive the report containing information about the witnesses while the rest of the commission members had been given it two weeks prior. It seems that she was intentionally excluded from receiving the necessary information to prepare for the hearing, and her own suggested witnesses – which included Jewish Americans, a rabbi, Palestinian Christians, and Norm Finkelstein, a Jewish scholar and son of Holocaust survivors – were all rejected as witnesses.
Speaking about the fallout after being removed from the commission and the wide range of reactions from Catholics, Boller became emotional about the support she received from Catholics for Catholics.
Boller mentioned John Yep, President of Catholics for Catholics, and described how his leadership helped President Trump win the Catholic vote in 2024. She referred to the backing from Catholics for Catholics as “amazing.”
Boller will receive the Catholic Champion award at the Catholic Prayer for America gala on March 19, 2026.
Does the Christian catechism require loyalty to Benjamin Netanyahu? Apparently it does, as Carrie Prejean Boller learned the hard way.
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) March 13, 2026
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